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Monday, October 08, 2007

Tuesday 27th Week in Ordinary Time

October 9, 2007Tuesday 27th Week in Ordinary Time - Year I

JONAH 3:1-10Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: "Go to thegreat city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you."Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh wasa very important city--a visit required three days. On the first day,Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days andNineveh will be overturned." The Ninevites believed God. They declareda fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put onsackcloth. When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from histhrone, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth andsat down in the dust. Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: "Bythe decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let any man or beast,herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. But letman and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently onGod. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. Who knows?God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger sothat we will not perish." When God saw what they did and how theyturned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring uponthem the destruction he had threatened.

LUKE 10:38-42As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a villagewhere a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sistercalled Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. ButMartha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. Shecame to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has leftme to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!" "Martha, Martha,"the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, butonly one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it willnot be taken away from her."

REFLECTIONMary lives by the spirit, and Jesus declares this to be of firstimportance. He is not, however, condemning Martha's hospitality. Jesusknows Martha's faith. But there is a greater kind of hospitality, andMary has found it. It is in listening to the Lord, opening not onlyour house but also our mind and heart to Jesus.

Most of us are, or have been, the Martha type. We rush around and worklong hours, perhaps for motives that are far less noble than Martha's.Martha was working overtime to please Jesus, to take care of hisneeds, to honor him. But what of our own motives? When we work longhours, is it because we aim to increase our income so that we canmaintain a fine house and every comfort? We often forget that we can'ttake our wealth with us beyond the grave.

In today's Gospel we see that perhaps Martha forgot that not only hadshe invited Jesus but that Jesus had invited her. What kind ofhospitality do we give our guest if we leave them alone while we aretoo busy to spend time with them?

If we want to get close to the Lord, we need to take the time to gowith Jesus, sit at his feet and listen to him. This is what Jesusexpects of each and every one of us.

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